Your assignment is to complete a personal project that investigates the relationships between poverty and hunger and encourages people to take specific action to solve this problem. You will need to investigate the causes, effects, and solutions to this issue. You can choose to investigate this problem as a local issue and investigate poverty and hunger in specific cities or communities. You can investigate poverty and hunger in a specific country, or you can look at this as global issue, the choice is yours.
What information do I need in order to investigate the relationship betwen poverty and hunger?
Before you start searching for information, you need to know what you are looking for. It is helpful making a list of what you ALREADY KNOW, and what you WANT TO KNOW about this issue. That will help you findind some keywords to start your search.
INFORMATION SEEKING STRATEGIES and INFORMATION ACCESS
What are the possible sources? Where are the best sources?
There is a variety of sources you can consult: Encyclopedias, books, databases, organizations, government documents, documentaries, topic experts and more.
A good start is an Encyclopedia for definition of poverty and hunger. World Book Online will provide you with definitions and useful links to further understand the issue. Click on the icon below to open World Book Online.
Next, you might want to find some books, articles and websites on the topic. Open the CIS Library Online Catalog to find books in the library as well as selected websites. Click on the image below to open the library catalog.
Remember to click on the tab "One Search" for websites and articles from magazines and newspapers.
Current news will also be very helpful to understand this issue. You can find it magazines and newspaper articles, as well as primary source documents on EBSCO,ABC-CLIO and PressDisplay. Click on their icons below to start searching.
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Newspapers from all over the World!
Search engines can be useful tools to help you find relevant websites. Try SweetSearchSocial Studies
Organizations such as UNICEF and The World Bank provide information on actions taken, plans to eradicate poverty and hunger, the Millenium Development Goals, as well as statistics.
You might also want to watch some documentaries on the issue. You might find some good ones on FreeDocumentariesand SnagFilms.
Here is a list of books in the library as well as useful websites for you.
Books in the library
Sorted by Call Number / Author.
330.1 LAN
Landes, David S. The wealth and poverty of nations : why some are so rich and some so poor. New York : W.W. Norton, 1999.Provides a history of wealth and power throughout the world, discussing how many European countries were able to acquire and keep wealth by focusing on work and knowledge which led to increased productivity, new technologies, and the pursuit of change.
330.12 DES
De Soto, Hernando. The Mystery of Capital : Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and fails Everywhere Else. London : Transworld, 2001.
330.12 NOR
Norberg, Johan. In defence of Global Capitalism. Timbro, 2001.
337 CON
Copenhagen Seminar for Social Progress (1st : 1996). Conditions for social progress : a world economy for the benefit of all. Copenhagen, Denmark : Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida, c1997.
337 SAC
Sacquet, Anne-Marie. World Atlas of sustainable development. Paris : Éditions Autrement, 2002.Economic, social and environmental data.
339.2 GAR
Garlake, Teresa. The rich-poor divide. New York : Thomson Learning, 1995.
339.4 FOX
Attacking Africa's poverty : experience from the ground. Washington, D.C : World Bank, c2006.
339.4 SAC
Sachs, Jeffrey. The end of poverty : economic possibilities for our time. New York : Penguin Press, 2005.The author shares what he has learned about global poverty through visits to more than one hundred countries, and presents his plan for ending extreme poverty around the world by the year 2025.
339.4 WHI
Whitman, Sylvia, 1961-. World poverty. New York : Facts On File, c2008.Case studies, primary source documents, biographies, facts, and figures offer a comprehensive overview of the issues related to world poverty and analyze its causes, impact on various countries, and possible strategies for prevention.
362.5 GIF
Gifford, Clive. Poverty. Mankato, Minn. : Smart Apple Media, c2010.What is poverty? -- How is poverty measured? -- What is extreme poverty like? -- Does poverty occur only in poor countries? -- How do people get trapped in poverty? -- Is bad government to blame? -- Should we cancel poor countries' debts? -- Do rich countries hold poor people back? -- Should the poor help themselves more? -- Shouldn't poor people have fewer children? -- Is poverty inevitable? -- Can foreign aid attack poverty? -- Shouldn't we help those at home rather than abroad? -- Is charity the answer? -- Won't globalization solve poverty? -- Can welfare keep people in poverty? -- Could rich people do more? -- Is there hope for the future?. Charts, graphs, and individual profiles offer a detailed overview of global poverty, its main causes, government response, and the experiences of individuals who are suffering from poverty in various countries.
362.5 OSU
O'Sullivan, Carol, 1945-. Poverty : locating the author's main idea. San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c1989.
363.8 ENO
Ending hunger : an idea whose time has come. New York : Praeger, 1985.
363.8 HOW
Howard, Tracy Apple. Kids ending hunger : what can we do? : a get-into-action book for kids and their parents and teachers. Kansas City : Andrews and McMeel, c1992.Discusses hunger in the world and presents activities children and their families can engage in to alleviate it.
960.3 GUE
Guest, Robert. The shackled continent : power, corruption, and African lives. Washington, [D.C.] : Smithsonian, 2004.Explores how corruption and intrigue have lead to war, poverty, and the AIDS epidemic in many African nations and offers viable suggestions for how others can help lessen the crisis.
Whenever you need to submit a reseach paper, you need to acknowlege (cite) the sources and ideas you used to build your own work. Failure to do so is plagiarism! Plagiarism is using words, ideas and works of other without acknowledging the author. Consequences of plagiarism will have serious consequences - receiveing a '0' in a work or getting expelled from am academic instritution. See CIS Academic Honesty Policy.
In order to avoid plagiarism, it is important to make the habit of taking notes and writing the sources on the notes, as well as using specific formats to inform who the author of an idea is as you wite your paper. One of these formatting styles is called MLA (Modern Language Association). The Middle School at CIS requires the papers to be written following the MLA style. The MLA Handbook (7th. edition) is available in the library (Call # 808 MLA). For further information about it and how to use it, check the CISLibrary Research Guide: Bibliography and Citation
The library offers a premium editon to EasyBib, where you can sign in, save your notes, find help on citing in the text and build a bibliography. Click on the icon below to sign up for EasyBib.
TASK DEFINITION
What is the problem?
Your assignment is to complete a personal project that investigates the relationships between poverty and hunger and encourages people to take specific action to solve this problem. You will need to investigate the causes, effects, and solutions to this issue. You can choose to investigate this problem as a local issue and investigate poverty and hunger in specific cities or communities. You can investigate poverty and hunger in a specific country, or you can look at this as global issue, the choice is yours.What information do I need in order to investigate the relationship betwen poverty and hunger?
Before you start searching for information, you need to know what you are looking for. It is helpful making a list of what you ALREADY KNOW, and what you WANT TO KNOW about this issue. That will help you findind some keywords to start your search.INFORMATION SEEKING STRATEGIES and INFORMATION ACCESS
What are the possible sources? Where are the best sources?
There is a variety of sources you can consult: Encyclopedias, books, databases, organizations, government documents, documentaries, topic experts and more.A good start is an Encyclopedia for definition of poverty and hunger. World Book Online will provide you with definitions and useful links to further understand the issue. Click on the icon below to open World Book Online.
Next, you might want to find some books, articles and websites on the topic. Open the CIS Library Online Catalog to find books in the library as well as selected websites. Click on the image below to open the library catalog.
Remember to click on the tab "One Search" for websites and articles from magazines and newspapers.
Current news will also be very helpful to understand this issue. You can find it magazines and newspaper articles, as well as primary source documents on EBSCO, ABC-CLIO and PressDisplay. Click on their icons below to start searching.
Search engines can be useful tools to help you find relevant websites. Try SweetSearchSocial Studies
Organizations such as UNICEF and The World Bank provide information on actions taken, plans to eradicate poverty and hunger, the Millenium Development Goals, as well as statistics.
You might also want to watch some documentaries on the issue. You might find some good ones on FreeDocumentariesand SnagFilms.
Here is a list of books in the library as well as useful websites for you.
Books in the library
Websites
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2012/0112albelda.html
http://www.wfp.org/hunger
http://feedingamerica.org/faces-of-hunger/hunger-101/hunger-and-poverty-statistics.aspx
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
http://www.adb.org/Poverty/
http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/hunger_readings.html.
http://www.urban.org/poverty/
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/0,,menuPK:336998~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:336992,00.html
http://www.factmonster.com/cig/economics/wealth-poverty.html.
http://www.factmonster.com/cig/economics/poverty.html.
http://www.statisticbrain.com/world-hunger-statistics/.
USE OF INFORMATION
Citing your sources
Whenever you need to submit a reseach paper, you need to acknowlege (cite) the sources and ideas you used to build your own work. Failure to do so is plagiarism! Plagiarism is using words, ideas and works of other without acknowledging the author. Consequences of plagiarism will have serious consequences - receiveing a '0' in a work or getting expelled from am academic instritution. See CIS Academic Honesty Policy.In order to avoid plagiarism, it is important to make the habit of taking notes and writing the sources on the notes, as well as using specific formats to inform who the author of an idea is as you wite your paper. One of these formatting styles is called MLA (Modern Language Association). The Middle School at CIS requires the papers to be written following the MLA style. The MLA Handbook (7th. edition) is available in the library (Call # 808 MLA). For further information about it and how to use it, check the CISLibrary Research Guide: Bibliography and Citation
The library offers a premium editon to EasyBib, where you can sign in, save your notes, find help on citing in the text and build a bibliography. Click on the icon below to sign up for EasyBib.